IV and cultural assimilation

[rich]

Very much more so: 1925-1970 saw the lowest immigration levels since
Jamestown. The Tide of Alienitudinousness Threatening All That is
Traditionally American, which has today's nativists in such a tizzy,
is in fact a return to historical norms (except with more Latinos and
fewer micks, krauts, wops, dagos, bohunks, scandihoovians, polacks,
etc.)
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hard not to think of Sgt Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and that melting pot

If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training... you
will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war.
But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on
Earth. You are not even human fucking beings! You are nothing but
unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard,
you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will
learn. I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here! I do
not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers. Here you are all
equally worthless! And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who
do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps! Do you maggots
understand that?

rich


On 10/15/09, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Laura asks:
>
>> Isn't the melting pot alive and well?  If anything, it's more so than back
>> in the '60s.
>
> Very much more so: 1925-1970 saw the lowest immigration levels since
> Jamestown. The Tide of Alienitudinousness Threatening All That is
> Traditionally American, which has today's nativists in such a tizzy, is in
> fact a return to historical norms (except with more Latinos and fewer micks,
> krauts, wops, dagos, bohunks, scandihoovians, polacks, etc.)
>
> -Monte
>
>
>